helloooo

People own guns to protect their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It has been proven in court that gov't has no obligation to protect the individual. When seconds count, police are just minutes away. Most often, police are only there to make a report and investigate a crime already occurred.

I for one refuse to be a victim and will defend myself, my family and my fellow man. I will stop ANYONE with deadly force if needed to save the lives of my family.

No one in their right mind wants to kill people but everyone in their right mind should be willing to in order to protect their family.

KalvaChomer

Anonymous - You might just want to ignore squirm. We geneally regard him in this forum as the "village idiot". At some point, engaging such a fool just begins to look like one is making fun of a retarded child or throwing nickels to the town wino to do silly little dances in the street. It's not becoming of either.

Anonymous007

"Why sell the tools, if they are never to be used for their intended purposes."

They are being used for the intended purpose more often than not yet you let these tragedies skew your mind. Don’t forget about the number of lives they have saved. These numbers far outweigh any number you could ever provide.

Obviously nobody wants mass shootings or otherwise, but the real question should be what caused them and why. The tool only aides these individuals; the tool doesn't make them do it. Let’s be honest. There are entirely too many guns out there now that will always be there regardless of any law passed. It’s not going to stop just because we remove access to the tool because an unstable person will find other ways to commit these heinous acts, regardless.

Anonymous007

Make up your mind already. Either they are or they aren't. “It is not these killing tools that are the problem. It is the crazy people who buy these killing tools and use them for their intended purpose who are the problem.”

I agree so let’s address this problem instead of attacking our fundamental rights. This is so much bigger than the tool itself. Again, as history has shown, everyone is fixated on the tool instead of the underlying problem.

Anonymous007

These drugs are turning people into muddled, brain-addled addicts incapable of controlling their own emotions and behavior. These drugs are useless and physiologically dangerous so why do we allow them to continue to hand them out like candy? And you want to blame the gun, seriously? I blame many things but let’s get to the root of problem first and foremost. There’s so much more to learn yet everyone is fixated on the gun instead of whom and why. It’s time for health practitioners to step up and start explaining. After all, we trust these individuals with our lives, don’t we?

Anonymous007

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights testified before the FDA in 1991 (yes over twenty years ago) that psychotropic drugs are a contributing cause of adverse and dangerous mental instability, sometimes causing victims to commit suicide and/or murder. Yet they continue to manufacture more and more. And you think meth labs are bad, what about these businesses? IMO, they cause more death and destruction than all illicit drugs combined but we don’t question it. Wake up people…

Anonymous007

Ask yourself this; why aren't we talking with health professionals about ways to combat a growing mental health epidemic? Are we going to continue to allow pharmaceutical companies to profit from their concoctions? After all, pharmaceutical companies sell more than $16 billion in anti-psychotic drugs every year but we see no one pressing the issue of instability in patients being prescribed these mind altering drugs by their physicians. It’s a proven fact that SSRI’s raise not only serotonin levels but they also increase the activity of epinephrine and norepinephrine. Guess what; paranoia, hallucinations, and violent behavior are hallmark side effects of SSRI’s.

Anonymous007

“LIAR, LIAR, LIAR. This was already corrected once on this forum today.” Get over it Spirm; it doesn’t make a difference where the weapon was located. Twenty plus lives were cut short because of a deranged person suffering from apparent mental instabilities; a weapons ban would not have changed the outcome. I bet dollars to donuts that better mental health care surely would have…

helloooo

Americans must continue to live their lives serving their God and enforcing their rights. A right not exercised is a right lost.

Gov't is comprised of the people. Every oath of office for federal and WV state employees are to the constitution. A consensus of people do not have the right to alienate me from the right to serve God and protect my family. If you people think you have the right to harm families and take the tools necessary to protect their families away from them then let 1776 commence again. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

helloooo

Man has the commandment of God to serve Him and Gov't has no right to interfere. Christians are to let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. What people forget is that God is the highest power. That is why the Bill of Rights was established so that gov't could make no law respecting an establishment of religion OR PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. This is why our founding fathers disagreed with even putting the bill of rights into the constitution because it could then be left open to legislation.

helloooo

The second amendment is not granted to you by gov't and therefore it cannot be taken away from you by gov't unless you let it.

You are endowed by your creator certain inalienable rights... AMONG them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Therefore the right to protect life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of you and your family is the foundation to enjoying those rights.

helloooo

CT shooter had 4 handguns and an AR style assault rifle. According to police, the AR was in the man's trunk. He had 4 handguns on him. Proposed bans would limit magazines to 10 rounds or smaller. 10 round magazine x 4 guns = 40 rounds. CT shooter killed roughly 30 people. He still could have committed his massacre under new laws.

RADSDOC

Squirm, just because someone collects guns, whether it be for hunting, personal protection, hobby or job, that's their personal right and freedom. All gun collectors don't have mental illnesses. Ban assault weapons. You probably also believe that the 1% in this country are to blame for your lifestyle and or lack of employment success. Right????

RADSDOC

Here we see a prime example of the same dysfunction that is destroying this country. Immediate and opposite reactions to random incidents that happen due to untreated mental illness. We need defined term limits in the Senate and the House. Limits would mean that after a defined period of time, it doesn't necessarily matter which way a congressman votes due to fear of reprisal in the next election, or, heaven forbid they were to vote against their party's trends. Banning 'assault weapons' will not prevent the majority of gun related crimes in this country. This agenda is nothing but an attempt to sway constituents to vote for me, because I supported the 'assault weapons' ban. Why do we as Americans stand for this? It's time to overthrow congress!!!!